Re: How come packages dont have a homepage field?

2005-06-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Stefhen Hovland wrote: I dont know if this has been asked before, but one thing I notice which is missing from .deb's is a field for a package's homepage URL. This was a nice thing with gentoo ebuilds, in that there was a homepage field for each package, so it was nice and easy for me to cut and

Re: Firefox / Profile

2005-06-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Patrick Rutkowski wrote: On Monday 20 June 2005 07:35 pm, x wrote: here:http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mozilla_Suite_:_Issues_:_Profile_in_Use, but I was unable to locate the "lock" file in order to delete it. updatedb && locate parent.lock I am not sure about the parent.lock part of t

Re: Laptop Lockup

2005-06-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
x wrote: Hey everybody... I've got Sarge loaded on my laptop, and it's working great. Here's my problem: 1. When I unplug the power cord, the laptop freezes up. Plugging it back in doesn't help. How do I fix this? Help us to help you. Please provide all the relevant details before postin

Re: mplayer is unable to play some wmv files

2005-06-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Robert Storey wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:42:04PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Usually, I can play .wmv files with mplayer. But it is not able to play certain wmv files, for reasons that I am unaware of. The image looks garbled up when I run mplayer. I have tried aviplay, xine

Re: knoppix -> sarge possible?

2005-06-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi people, Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a clean install? TIA Fernando Cacciola It is possible to do so. But in the end you will end up spending more time by taking this route. Unless you have a solid reason as to, why yo

mplayer is unable to play some wmv files

2005-06-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Usually, I can play .wmv files with mplayer. But it is not able to play certain wmv files, for reasons that I am unaware of. The image looks garbled up when I run mplayer. I have tried aviplay, xine, mplayer, kplayer and none of them work. I have already installed w32codecs. I am using Sid. C

Re: Eliminating upgrade confusion

2005-06-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
David Jardine wrote: The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing". Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't want to mov

Re: Swap usage

2005-06-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
theal wrote: It grows to almost a gig. I have a program I suspect is the problem, but it would be nice to be able to verify without restart this very mission critical program. Tony Do you have doodle or doodled installed on your system? I found that it eats up all the memory and consume

Re: removing gcc-snapshot leaves files behind

2005-06-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:39:11PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi On sid, recently I installed and removed the gcc-snapshot package. But even after removing with 'apt-get remove --purge gcc-snapshot', it leaves the following files hanging arou

removing gcc-snapshot leaves files behind

2005-06-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi On sid, recently I installed and removed the gcc-snapshot package. But even after removing with 'apt-get remove --purge gcc-snapshot', it leaves the following files hanging around. /usr/local/bin/gcc-snapshot /usr/local/bin/g++-snapshot /usr/local/bin/gfortran-snapshot Should not these

Re: cannot install forecast fox

2005-06-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: forecast fox can be found at http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/installation.html I cannot install the above plugin to mozilla-firefox when mozilla-tabextensions is installed. But if mozilla-tabextensions is removed, then I can install it. If mozilla-tabextensions is

cannot install forecast fox

2005-06-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
forecast fox can be found at http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/installation.html I cannot install the above plugin to mozilla-firefox when mozilla-tabextensions is installed. But if mozilla-tabextensions is removed, then I can install it. If mozilla-tabextensions is installed and if I click on th

Re: Will Sid go nuts?

2005-06-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I'm a Debian noob and don't understand... Won't , Sarge become Stable, Sid become Testing, whatever ("etch"??) become unstable? Also, this thread is in regard to Sid.. What happens to Sid if not become testing? JR A more detailed explanation of what happens when a release is made is avai

texinfo incompatibility with old versions

2005-06-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
When I tried to make documentation for gnuplotfortran package there were some errors from texi2pdf command. I reported the bug in sourceforge and the maintainer is unable to reproduce the problem. Can someone reproduce the following bug (better still offer a solution) with gnuplotfortran packa

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Charles Read wrote: Hey everybody! I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is it like at an instant all the testing repositories will be labeled stable and from that moment forward everybody with wood

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Selva Nair wrote: Hi michael, raju: On 5/26/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 17:16 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Selva Nair wrote: Looking through evidence left behind (bash_history etc..) I have figured out that the privilege esca

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Selva Nair wrote: Hi all, One of my machines running debian woody (up to date with all security updates) was broken into yesterday. The attacker gained a normal user access possibly by cracking a weak password and then managed to get a root shell, install a rootkit etc... Looking throug

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
noc-ops wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install came w/ 2.6 kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel still shows as 2.4? Am I missing something? Also, which kernel-image (2.6.?) should I upgrade to? Any insight will be appreciated. regards, /viren

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Adam Funk wrote: Robert Vangel wrote: It usually takes about an hour for my posts to appear. I had to subscribe to the mailing list in order to be able to post to the newsgroup. Does that restriction not apply to posting directly to the mailing list? If not, that would explain the spam. I

my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
support and me. At 14:15 -0400 2005-05-23, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >>Hi >> I use xxx.xxx.xxx as my news server. I am concerned about the fact that, whenever I post a message to linux.debian.user newsgroup, it takes about 0.5 to 1 hour for the messages to show up on the list. I am

Re: How to change Sarge from testing to stable

2005-05-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Bee Jay wrote: When Sarge becomes stable since I am running Sarge do I just change my sources from testing to stable? I find Sarge does what I need it to do and no longer have to have the latest thing. Thanks your time FAQ. The short answer is change your sources to sarge. For more detai

Re: wireless pcmcia works/doesn't work

2005-05-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:11:42PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Now when I try to add the wireless info below, I cannot connect; wireless-essid blahblahblah wireless-key 1234567890 I cannot get connected. I've double checked the essid & wifi key (I have them printed ou

Re: /etc/modules comment is wrong

2005-05-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
David Jardine wrote: I've never had the courage to file a bug and wouldn't know where to start, but I'm sure someone else on the list can explain. Hey, It is really easy to file a bug report. Just install reportbug package and it will do all the 'dirty' work. You need to have an active

Re: Mailing lists for the BTS

2005-05-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2005-05-20 04:35:50, schrieb Andreas Ehn: Hi, When a bug is filed in the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS), a mailing list is created (@bugs.debian.org). AFAIK, the submitter and the maintainer of the package, for which the bug was filed, are on this list. Is there a way f

Re: not able to edit telugu in yudit

2005-05-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
The telugu characters in gucharmap are displayed properly. Does this mean that all the necessary fonts are installed? I dont know what other packages to install as I have already installed ttf-telugu-fonts package. It seems you need to configure yudit manually: Configuration 1. Please copy

Re: not able to edit telugu in yudit

2005-05-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Sven Arvidsson wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: this is a comment, not an answer. Those boxes are an indication that there is a missing or unrecognized unicode font, or a misconfigured application font preference. One of the things I would love to see is an application where you could input the 0c66 and ou

Re: help in sarge testing->stable

2005-05-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Alberto Bert wrote: Hi, I'm running sarge, but I would like to keep using the testing distribution, also after the release. Do you think there will be any kind of problem in the transition between sarge and the new testing? I mean, should I just upgrade my system and everything should work, or ther

not able to edit telugu in yudit

2005-05-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
This is a long shot as there as not many users who use debian and are interested in telugu fonts. But I am posting it anyway hoping that someone has a solution for this. I have installed ttf-telugu-fonts and yudit packages in Debian Sid. $dpkg -l ttf-telugu-fonts yudit ii ttf-telugu-fonts

not able to edit telugu in yudit

2005-05-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
This is a long shot as there as not many users who use debian and are interested in Linux. But I am posting it anyway hoping that someone has a solution for this. I have installed ttf-telugu-fonts and yudit packages in Debian Sid. $dpkg -l ttf-telugu-fonts yudit ii ttf-telugu-fonts

Re: How to see memory usage?

2005-05-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
processess (but there might be a way to do it) but with gnome-system-monitor you can see all the processes and their memory usage. hth raju -- Kamaraju Kusumanchi Graduate Student Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Daniel Déchelotte wrote: Hi, H. S. a écrit : | I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a | CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. [...] | What options do I have to solve this problem (ifplugd, guessnet, etc)? This is exactly what this review[1] attempts to c

How to report spam (was Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?)

2005-05-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Report spam instead. Just hitting delete does nothing to solve the problem. Could you explain how you would do that? Is it a lengthy process or just hitting a key or forwarding the spam email to another address? How can I be sure that reporting spam indeed works? Is there any authority who mo

Re: group web software

2005-05-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Nate Kroll wrote: This is by no means a debian based question, but the software would be on a debian box and everyone on this list seems very knowledgable, so this seems like a great place to start. I'm looking for some web application that will allow the creation and management of community gr

apt-file update gives errors

2005-05-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
$sudo apt-file update String found where operator expected at (eval 2) line 1, near "*404' > /dev/null || (curl -z "/" -R -o "/" "/dists//Contents-.gz" && chmod 644 "/")'" (Missing operator before ' > /dev/null || (curl -z "/" -R -o "/" "/dists//Contents-.gz" && chmod 644 "/")'?) W: Don

Re: something unclear with sed for me

2005-05-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Andras Lorincz wrote: I want to replaces all multiple spaces with one space. My first attempt was this: sed -e 's/\ */\ /g' This replaced all multiple spaces with one but as a side effect, sed inserted a space between all characters. Playing a little I tried this: sed -e 's/[\ ]\ */\ /g' and this w

Re: makefile not taking aliases into account

2005-05-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Michael Marsh wrote: On 5/8/05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Using Debian sid. I have an alias in my .bashrc say something like alias x="y" This command is executing fine on a bash shell (ie I can use x). But when I use x in a makefile, it is not getting e

makefile not taking aliases into account

2005-05-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi Using Debian sid. I have an alias in my .bashrc say something like alias x="y" This command is executing fine on a bash shell (ie I can use x). But when I use x in a makefile, it is not getting expanded to y. Is this a future? How can I overcome this limitation? thanks for any pointers raj

Re: Removing what a meta-package provided

2005-05-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
The non-automatic thus potentially difficult question is "what is part of KDE?" Surely kdelibs. What about Qt? And libc6? (just to name three of KDE's dependencies and to show that the answer is *not* fully deducible from the dependency graph). So the maintainer will have to take some subjective de

Re: help me create a boot up disk for my computer

2005-05-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
s l wrote: hello Ok here is what's going on I just got this used computer from a friend ( he's not very good with computers) and I forgot to get the bootup disk from him. long story short he doesn't have it and I need to create one, but since the 3 1/2 inch floppy drive has n

Re: nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> That problem has been solved. As per someone else's suggestion in this > thread, a simple modprobe nvidia installed the drivers without having > to run the nVidia installer. After that, I added nvidia to > /etc/modules, and now the drivers load automatically. > > So that is one task down, a b

Re: Need help with XF86 config

2004-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:35:47 -0600, Andrew Konosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what command do I run to reconfigure > the graphics setup? > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 might be what you are looking for. You can also source /etc/bash_completion and then press tab after entering the command mi

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> > 4) Lastly, I hope you will not mind me mentioning Knoppix but I have seen > impressive screen shots of it while there are very few available for Debian. > Knoppix however appears to be merely an introductory vehicle for Linux so my > thinking is that I may as well skip it and instead go straig

OT - store only the latest version of some files

2004-12-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi, I am wondering if cvs has capability to do this. If not please tell me what the right tool is. We are using debian sid. I have a project which we need to maintain the source code by a version control system. The project also deals with some data files (around 20 or so text files each 100

Re: knoppix HD-install problem

2004-12-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:48:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14.12.2004 17:19:35: > > > But imho that is not true. the only differences between knoppix and debian > are: > 1. knoppix ha

Re: knoppix HD-install problem

2004-12-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:30:38 +0100, belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've just download the last knoppix (3.7), I tried to use the same way > as with 3.6 > to install it on HD. But it failed at reboot with following errors: > Short answer :- Ask in the knoppix mailing lists. Long a

Re: ftp question

2004-12-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:34:34 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you transfer an entire directory using ftp? The directory that I'm > trying to transfer has a lot of "subdirectories" in it. These directories > also have several types of files in them... ie.. text, vi

cannot ssh into my own machine

2004-12-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Running debian sid. Let's say my machine's external IP is 69.212.23.215 and internel IP is 192.168.0.101. I am connected to the internet through DI-514 router. I do port forwarding to get ssh functionality. >From this machine (192.168.0.101), I can do ssh 192.168.0.101 -l username I cannot do s

showimg filenames are not displayed fully

2004-12-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Using debian sid, latest showimg, kde versions. In the left panel of window where the file names are displayed, the names of the files are not displayed fully. For example if the actual filename is hp_scanDS_361815215438.jpg I see it as hp_s... which makes it very tough to distinguish it from oth

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: > > > What would you all suggest? > > > > K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning p

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> If your home directory has a different path on the two machines, try this: > > DYNAMIC=${PWD#$HOME/} > ssh -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cd $DYNAMIC ; exec /bin/bash --login -i" > > This should plunk you in the corresponding directory on the remote host, > whether you're in $HOME/foo or /usr/bin.

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:48:19 -0500, David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > ssh -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd / && exec /bin/bash' > > That works, but because this is a login shell, and the remote machine > may differentiate between login and non-login shel

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:28:07 +0100, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:18:54PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "sh -c 'cd dirname; exec somecommand'" > > > > somecommand is the command you want to run after cd'ing. E.g. if you > > want t

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:18:54 -0500, David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "sh -c 'cd dirname; exec somecommand'" > > somecommand is the command you want to run after cd'ing. E.g. if you > want to run bash in / as joe at shell.example.net: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "s

login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am trying to ssh from A to B. I want to login into a particular directory on B instead of $HOME. How can I do this? I tried ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd dirname but that is not working. Any other ideas? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Cornell University http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk28

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:24:29 +0200, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How might one save and restore setting of variables in a bash script to and > from a file in one's home (or sub-) directory? > The file name is .bashrc For more information install bash-doc package and read the bash doc

maxtor harddrive firewire usb (was Re: is repartitioning and reformatting the only alternative?)

2004-11-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:09:20 -0500, Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:39:37 -0500) > writes: > > I am sorry I dont have an answer for your question. I have a maxtor > > 200 GB usb drive. The d

Re: is repartitioning and reformatting the only alternative?

2004-11-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:33:51 -0500, Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Suddenly, last Saturday, I could no longer access the main partition > of my year old external Maxtor 5000XT, a 250 GB drive because of some > read errors on some sectors (see at the end of the messag

Re: any successful stories of freenx on debian

2004-11-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:37:16 +0100, Fabian Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But when I run nxclient, a window comes up with no information what so > >ever. All I can do in this popped up window is to press the OK button. > >I am not sure what is wrong with it. > > FreeNX does not ship any nxcli

Re: intel compiler not finding (system) header files

2004-11-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> yes I did all this! it's the C++ that seems to be causing problems when > looking for header files (eg I compiled up all of mpich without problem) Ok. How about -cxxlib-icc option then? $cat sizes.cpp #include using namespace std; int main() { cout << sizeof(char) << "\n"; cout << sizeo

Re: intel compiler not finding (system) header files

2004-11-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:55:49 +, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, on my Debian dual-Xeon box, I have tried to install the Intel > C/C++ compiler (ifc). I have followed Intel's instructions in "Platform ifc is intel fortran compiler. icc is the intel c/c++ compiler > > However, when

Re: ssh w/o password?

2004-11-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:20:55 -0500, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a two machine network at home and I want to replace ftp and > telnet with ssh for security reasons. I am under the impression that it > is possible to set things up so that I do not have to login with my > passwor

battery-graph gives errors

2004-11-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I installed the latest battery-stats package available in sid. When I run the battery-graph command I get the following errors. Is it a known bug? Is there any workaround? I would appreciate if you can point me in the right direction. $battery-graph gnuplot> set ylabel "%Full" 0.00,0.

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-17 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:04:21 +, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:21:33 +0100, Christian Christmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > are there any SCP GUI clients for Sarge? > > Slightly OT, but if possible suggest you use SFTP over SCP. See > http://b

solved( Re: gvim crashes on alt-tab)

2004-11-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:41:17 +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently gvim (not vim) is crashing if I press alt-tab and switch to > another window. If I press the alt-tab, then the crash occurs most of > the time but not always. When I removed the vimsp

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader

2004-11-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:03:37 +0100, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041106 22:54]: > > > Forgive me if I am missing something obvious but why cant you just > > apt-get the acroread package? > > Because i

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader

2004-11-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 18:45:15 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot install AAR following the instructions in > > http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?Acrobat > > Why I click in the script (*.sh )I recieve an error message. > > I suggest include the tarbar in the Debian

Re: Debian Commands

2004-10-29 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:56:34 +0100, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a document or list anywhere of all the Debian specific > commands, their parameters and what they do? I'm thinking of things like > dpkg, update-modules, dpkg-reconfigure and all the rest. I am trying to > learn the "Deb

gvim crashes on alt-tab

2004-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Recently gvim (not vim) is crashing if I press alt-tab and switch to another window. If I press the alt-tab, then the crash occurs most of the time but not always. I am not sure what I did wrong and could not track down the problem. Google did not help me. So I am wondering if someone else had the

any successful stories of freenx on debian

2004-10-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am wondering if anyone is able to get freenx on debian sid? I downloaded the deb packages from deb http://www.kalyxo.org/debian/ experimental main But when I run nxclient, a window comes up with no information what so ever. All I can do in this popped up window is to press the OK button. I am n

faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all I read this list regularly. I find that people who want to try Debian for the first time are often confused about the fact the there are three debian distributions and do not know which one to choose. As usual, everyone wants to do the right thing the first time. I made this small FAQ to

how to change font of desktop icons

2004-10-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I am using KDE, debian sid update regularly. Can someone please tell me how to change the size of the fonts used for kde-desktop icons. I searched google and went around the kcontrol window but could not find anything. Any hacks, suggestions would be very helpful. I find that the fonts used

Re: Combining PDF documents

2004-10-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:12:29 +0200, Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting > > document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really > > need i

usb hard drive fails to mount after rsync errors

2004-10-09 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all I have a 200 GB extenal hard drive with USB interface. I have the following entries in /etc/fstab /dev/sda/media/usb0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda5 /usbdrive/ent1autorw,users,noauto 0 2 /dev/sda7 /usbdrive/ent2auto

Re: using scp to move files

2004-10-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:13:25 -0700, Peter Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:41:43PM +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > >Hi all > > Very simple question but I cannot find the answer in google > >(possibly wrong keywords). > > >

using scp to move files

2004-10-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all Very simple question but I cannot find the answer in google (possibly wrong keywords). I need to move some files from a server to client. I am planning to use scp for this. Using scp, I can only copy the files. But I want to move the files instead of copying them. Any ideas? The manua

Re: Firefox and Mozilla memory usage issues

2004-09-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:44:17 +0100 (BST), [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I mostly use Firefox or Mozilla for my web browsing > purposes. Both programs are great and provide the user > with a lot of choice for configuration and using > features and extensions. > > However, I have not

Re: how to package to the sources.list

2004-09-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 04:30:16 -0700 (PDT), belahcene abdelkader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, every body > > I want to add to my list of packages, softwares I 've > downloaded, I saw the documentation, it is not clear. > > I 've put my packages *.deb in the directory > /home/debs > > deb file:

Re: playing DVD movies and .avi files

2004-09-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 0:10:31 UTC, Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings everyone! > > I have a camera which has the option of producing .avi movie files. I also > have some movie DVDs I'd like to play. Some Web searching turned up > cinelerria. There is an .rpm package at > aleron.dl

k3b is not writing multisession dvds

2004-09-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all, Not exactly a debian issue, but since I am using sid, I thought I will check up here if someone else had the same problem and solved it. I am using k3b on sid which is upto date with apt-get. The dvds can be written with no multissession. But when the multisession is enabled, there is a

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:59:48 +0100, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: > [...] > > > > I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it > > cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be > > able

gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on which spreadsheet software is better? While having choice is better, I would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In particular I am looking for 1) things which can be done in one but cant be done in anot

Re: Installing/Updating debian on a machine with no internet access

2004-08-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Welcome to the wonderful land of Debian :-) > Firstly, is there any way to build a list of packages installed on my > machine at home which includes the source from which the package was > installed? There definitely is. Others may have better solution. My way is on the 'source' machine do dpkg

Re: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing

2004-07-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Scott Thompson wrote: Occasionally Debian just locks up. The same box has WinXP and SuSE 9.1 and Debian Sid. Each OS has its own hard drive. I have not experienced any locking up with the other two OSs. I've looked in the logs in /var/logs but can't find anything that seems significant. Ca

Re: Amazingly slow bootup on HP laptop and other problems

2004-07-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Sudarshana Koushik wrote: Hi ppl, So here goesI installed debian/unstable on HPnx9110 and almost everything works fine, except 1. The first line after lilo ('Loading Linux..') takes ages. The dots appear one after the other so slowly, it painful

Re: resolv.conf has been lost

2004-06-29 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
cenapad wrote: I've noticed that resolv.conf has been reseted each time I reset computer, that is, if I reboot ou shutdown the machine, i lost the content of resolv.conf, and, therefore, information about my DNS. Strange... Are you using dhcp or static IPs? I ask because I had a similar exper

Re: current state of testing?

2004-06-29 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Micha Feigin wrote: What is the current state of testing? how close is it to being stable (apart from the installer), how much is it changing now, and what are the states of gnome and apache2 there? You might find these two links interesting. http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ http://bugs.debi

Re: which dhcp client should be used?

2004-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
thanks all for the replies. Looks like dhcp-client is relatively easy to configure (compared to dhcp3-client) . I am able to get dhcp-client up and running. I will probably try pump during the weekend and get back to you. thanks again raju Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I am interested in setting

which dhcp client should be used?

2004-06-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am interested in setting up my machine as a dhcp client. Doing apt-cache search for dhcp clients on unstable debian, I get dhcp-client - DHCP Client dhcp3-client - DHCP Client dhcpcd - DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking I would like to know which is the preferred one? Wha

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Daniel Klein wrote: I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and I'm sure th

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Daniel Klein wrote: I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and I'm sure there is, I just can't find it) command, that would

problems setting up hp color laserjet 4500N

2004-06-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all I am having trouble setting up HP color laserjet 4500N from a debian unstable. The problem is that the page to be printed is shrinked to 1/4 of the letter-sized paper. Something like | i | | | m | | | a | | | g | | | e | | |-

Re: intellimouse is crazy

2004-06-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... I am geeting some troubles with a Intellimouse Ps2 in Debian Sarge 2.6.6. Its completely crazy in graphical interface. I know i have to modify /etc/XF86Config-4 (and I did it), but it doesnt work. Any suggestion. From now, thanks all. You have to load the mousede

software suspend on 2.6.5-1-686-smp

2004-06-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Can someone help me how to get software suspend working on debian unstable machine? In particular I would like to try the hibernating feature. I am using default kernel-image and the /boot/config-2.6.5-1-686-smp has the following lines # # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # CONFIG_PM=y CONF

performing diff on parts of a file

2004-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am looking for a program/script(?) which performs diff on parts of a file. Say I have a file of 100 lines. How to do diff on lines between 20-30, and 50-60 without writing them into separate files. Which software should I learn for this? sed/awk/perl? thanks for any ideas raju -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
J.S.Sahambi wrote: I have a two debian/unstable systems (let us name them PC-A and PC-B). Both have got different packages installed. PC-A is connected to internet with 2 MBps link and so there is no problem in upgrading it regularly. PC-B is not connected to internet. So I whenever I need to u

Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

2004-06-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
richard lyons wrote: Do folk here have recommendations about how to do wordprocessing? I am looking for solutions that allow well formatted technical documents, with the possibility of using well-designed templates in a modern typographic style. Interoperability and/or ease of import and expo

cannot modprobe toshiba_acpi

2004-06-09 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I have a toshiba satellite p25-s507. I am running Debian/testing. As root if I do # modprobe toshiba_acpi FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko): No such device Here is the system information # ls -al /lib/modules/2.6.5-1-686-s

kernel message logs - should I be worried?

2004-05-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am using debian testing 2.6.5-1-686-smp kernel. In /var/log/kern.log, I see the following messages. May 22 12:03:05 kusumanchi kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) May 22 12:03:05 kusumanchi kernel: apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. May 22 12:03:05 kusumanchi ker

konqueror startup errors

2004-05-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Whenever I start konqueror I am getting the following errors. Similar errors are coming when any kde application is started from command line. I am running Debian testing (sarge). Any work arounds? I googled around a bit. I saw that couple of others also had the same problem but I could not fin

Re: google type of search for a desktop

2004-05-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Adam Aube wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I am wondering if there is a software which performs google's search on (and only on) the files of a desktop running debian linux? I am aware of utilities such as grep, find, locate etc, but prefer a google's interface. For ex, I can s

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